Thursday, August 23, 2018

Family befuddlement

Image Source: From the Aleh website
Aleh really needs to choose the definition of "family" that it prefers.

Sometimes its PR folk refer to "the parents and siblings of residents in Aleh institutions" as family - see this piece posted on its website.

At other times it uses "family" to connote the relationship of staff at Aleh to their charges. See "Aleh Bnei Brak takes a trip to Aleh Negev".

Aleh, time to stop straddling the fence.

If residents of your large, closed institutions do indeed have families somewhere - and in all likelihood they do - then those are their families. Period. The staff and volunteers at Aleh are just that.

Remember, Lumos statistics show that:
"Of the 8 million children in institutions worldwide, more than 90% are not orphans.Most have families who love them and want them but they are driven into institutions because of poverty and discrimination on the grounds of disability or ethnicity."

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